ADVANIAdvani, LAL KRISHNALal Krishna ( born Nov. November 8, 1929 1927 , Karachi, British India [now in Pakistan], veteran parliamentarian and founder founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) . Appointed twice as the Union Home Minister in the BJP-led coalition government (1998 and 1999), in 2002 he was nominated as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. In 2004, he became the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha. He is largely responsible for resurrecting and strengthening the party. From being virtually non-existent on the political map of India in the early 1980s, the party has and deputy prime minister of India (2002–04) who was largely responsible for popularizing and strengthening the BJP. From its formation in 1980, the party emerged as one of the strongest political forces in India.

Advani completed his initial education from St. Patrick’s High School, Karachi, and After graduating from the D.G. National College , in Hyderabad(Sind), and then moved on to , Advani studied law at the Government Law College , Bombay, to study lawin Bombay (now Mumbai). He joined the militant Hindu group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh , (RSS; “National Volunteers Corps”) and took charge of its activities in Rajasthan in 1947. When Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (forerunner BJS; Indian People’s Association), the political wing of the BJP) RSS, in 1951, Advani became the Secretary secretary of the party’s unit first in Rajasthanand subsequently in 1970 of . He held that position until 1970, when he moved to the Delhi unit.

In 1970 , Advani became a member of the Rajya Sabha(Upper House of Parliament) and continued to hold the seat till 1989. During this period, he , the upper house of India’s parliament, a seat that he held until 1989. He was elected president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh ( BJS ) in 1973 and continued at the helm till 1977, relinquishing until 1977. Advani relinquished the post when he was appointed information and broadcasting minister in the Janata Party-led coalition government , a coalition of several major parties opposed to the period of national emergency that had been declared in 1975, headed by Morarji Desai. During his ministerial tenure, he abolished press censorship, repealed all anti-press antipress legislation enacted during the Emergency period of national emergency, and institutionalized reforms to safeguard the freedom of the media.In the Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Bill presented to the Parliament during his tenure, he sought autonomy for Doordarshan and All India Radio.

The Following the collapse of the Desai government led to the and subsequent breakdown of the BJSand , a large number of its members - led the party’s members—led by Advani and Atal Behari Vajpayee formed Bihari Vajpayee—formed a new political party, the pro-Hindu BJP, in 1980. To popularize the party and make the masses aware of publicize its agenda, Advani undertook a series of rath yatras yatras (processionspolitical tours), traversing the length and breadth of the country in the 1990s. Working to broaden its electoral base, the party adopted a more moderate, secular agenda in the mid-1990s. This strategy was largely responsible for the BJP’s success in the parliamentary elections in 1998 and 1999.

Advani served as Appointed twice (1998 and 1999) as the union home minister in the BJP-led coalition government, Advani was named deputy prime minister in the Vajpayee government until their general election defeat in May 2004. Since then he has been 2002. Following his party’s defeat in the general elections of 2004, he became the leader of the opposition in the Parliament. Known for his formidable -organizing skills, Advani is credited with scripting the BJP’s meteoric rise as a political forceparliament’s lower chamber, the Lok Sabha. Advani ran as his party’s prime ministerial candidate in the 2009 general election. He resigned his cabinet position following the party’s defeat and accepted a post as the chairman of the BJP’s parliamentary wing.